It worked!

The jubilant cry was so wonderful.

At this moment, countless days and nights of hard work and sweat were all given real meaning by the flashing signal light. Those doubts from within the PPPL laboratory about their useless work will also come to naught in an instant.

Looking at the flickering signal light, Lu Zhou's clenched fists slowly loosened, and slowly clenched because of the surging excitement in his chest.

The experiment didn't end with cheers.

With the first success, soon there was a second, a third......

Helium-3 particles, which are accelerated to the limit, carry a huge amount of kinetic energy, penetrate the plasma, and bombard the tungsten titanium alloy as the target material with a slight offset of amplitude.

A series of data is collected, superimposed, and stored in a database in a fixed format, waiting for theorists to organize it.

Looking at the image on the computer screen, Professor Lazersson patted Lu Zhou's arm.

On the other side, standing in the middle of a jubilant crowd, Director Brogg looked at the data spread out on the screen in a daze, and did not speak for a long time.

"What did I say to you earlier," said Professor Lazersson, who patted him on the shoulder and grinned as he walked up to Director Brog's side, "I said that this idea must work!" Now you're finally convinced. ”

Coming back to his senses, Director Brogg coughed heavily and corrected with a straight face, "...... It's just a phased achievement, and it's too early to say that. ”

"Yes, yes, it's just a phased achievement." Professor Lazersson smiled and said in a joking tone, "Don't envy me when I stand on the podium in Stockholm." ”

"I'll wait until you get a call from the Nobel Prize."

Driving away the stunned Professor Lazersson, Director Brogg was silent for a few moments before walking in the direction of Lu Zhou.

Walking up to the young scholar, he took a breath and said in an apologetic voice.

"For what I just said...... I must apologize to you. ”

Although Lu Zhou was indeed a little angry when he heard Professor Brog's words at first, the moment the helium-3 particles successfully hit the target material, all the bad moods were diluted by the joy of success.

"There's nothing to apologize for, you just did what you had to do," Lu Zhou continued in a relaxed tone, looking at the data that was accumulating on the computer screen, "Just like us, we are also doing what we have to do." ”

"Thank you for understanding...... I also sincerely wish you more amazing results. ”

Glancing at Lu Zhou gratefully, Director Brogg turned around and left the laboratory without mentioning the dissolution of the research group.

If the "He-3 atomic probe technology" comes out, the cognition of high-temperature plasma in the world's major plasma physics laboratories will make a leap from "diagnosis" to "observation".

In terms of accuracy, the two belong to completely different orders of magnitude.

There is no doubt that this will be a "quasi-Nobel Prize-level" discovery!

If such a project is really axed, even if no one condemns him, he will definitely regret the mistakes he made for the rest of his life......

……

In the evening of the same day, Lu Zhou, who had had eaten dinner, came to the side of Lake Carnegie and jogged along the path by the lake as usual.

He was in a good mood and ran, so he couldn't help but speed up his pace.

In the end, he let go of his speed and ran with all his might, and he had completely turned into a wild horse that had escaped.

It seemed that only the cold wind blowing in his face could calm his emotions.

However, although the systemic agents improved his metabolic function, they did not turn him into an athlete.

After sprinting around the path on the side of the lake for less than five minutes, Lu Zhou stopped breathlessly by the bench on the side of the road, grabbed the handrails and sat down slowly.

Sweat seeped from the front and back of the chest, sticking to the close-fitting clothes, and the cold wind gradually blew cold.

That cold feeling, the frozen Lu Zhou couldn't help but shiver, but he still couldn't extinguish the blood in his heart.

At this time, Molina, who was also jogging along the lake, noticed Lu Zhou, who was sitting on a bench panting, and couldn't help but gradually slow down and stopped next to the bench.

“…… Are you stimulated by something? Giving him a puzzled look, Molina looked at him in a teasing tone and asked.

"No, I'm feeling so good right now." With his hands on his knees, Lu Zhou, who was panting, grinned and said that he was very good now.

It's just that the good ones are a bit too much.

glanced at him with a neurotic gaze, but Molina didn't say anything more, and sat down at the other end of the bench.

Feeling out a bottle of mineral water from the sports belt, she elegantly unscrewed the cap and took a sip close to her lips, then glanced sideways at the panting Lu Zhou, and said in a casual tone.

"It's Christmas soon, how are you going to spend it?"

"Just over at Princeton, my student proposed a party, and then ...... "I thought about it for a long time, and Lu Zhou didn't think of anything better," and then went home to rest. ”

Looking at Lu Zhou speechlessly, Mo Lina sighed, "This kind of Christmas sounds really pitiful...... Aren't you planning to find a girlfriend to spend the holidays with? ”

Is this a pot that is not opened?

But it doesn't matter, Lu Zhou is almost used to it.

"Math is hard enough, girlfriend is a creature, I'll think about it when I'm free." Speaking of this in an emotional tone, Lu Zhou suddenly realized a very serious matter, and couldn't help but glance at Mo Lina, "I almost forgot, aren't you single yourself?" Who is there to say about me. ”

"I'm different, I'm celibate, and feelings are a burden to me." Gently flicking the sweat-soaked blonde hair, the pale blue eyes were imprinted with indifference, "And, as you said, math is hard enough." ”

When Lu Zhou heard this, he was immediately happy.

"But I haven't seen how well you serve math."

From the initial realization that he had gone from being an undergraduate to a professor, she was still following her mentor to the Hardy threshold of the Riemann conjecture, so much so that she didn't even write a doctoral dissertation.

Of course, Lu Zhou was not gloating, on the contrary, out of kindness, he had persuaded her many times to choose a relatively simple target to start.

It turned out that she had never heard of it.

Molina was stunned for a moment, and when she came back to her senses, she glared at him in annoyance.

She was going to refute, but she found that she had no confidence to refute at all, and in the end she could only grit her silver teeth and gurgle, and held back for a long time before she could hold back a sentence.

"You wait...... At the IMO conference in August this year, I will let you retract this sentence! ”

Leaving this cruel remark, she stood up and ran away angrily.

"I'm waiting for your good news."

Shouting at the back of the road that gradually disappeared by the lake, Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile.

What about me, now let's see who is stimulated?

But then again, if you can make a result with a little stimulation, it's good to be stimulated.

Wiping a handful of sweat from his forehead, Lu Zhou, who had recovered his strength, got up again from the bench and continued to run along the path by the lake in a good mood......